Simon Mainwaring Quotes - Page 5

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• Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.

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  Retirement, Moving, Support

  "10 Actions Consumers Can Take to Reinvent Capitalism" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

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  Government, Expectations, Age

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• Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).

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  Jobs, Divorce, Media

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• Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.

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  Technology, Giving, Leader

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• Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

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  Media, Engagement, Metrics

  "How Social Media Can Destroy Your Business And What You Can Do About It" by Simon Mainwaring, www.fastcompany.com. June 6, 2011.

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• The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.

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  Meaningful, Voice, Community

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• The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.

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  Technology, Media, Creative

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• The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

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  Media, Tools, Social Transformation

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• The launch of Google+ apps sends a powerful signal - the personalized web has begun. What this means is that the way information is structured and accessed will turn on the individual, or rather their personal profile which is a composite of all the data collected on the basis of what they have searched for and shared.

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  Powerful, Mean, Data

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• The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.

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  Government, Play, People

  "Calling on the Private Sector: It’s Time to Play a Role" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.

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  Meaningful, Expression, Causes

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• The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

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  Government, Effort, Challenges

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• There is a growing awareness among brands that in order to participate in conversations that are taking place across social networks, they must join these discussions on the basis of something that is meaningful to their customers.

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  Meaningful, Order, Growing

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• There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?

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  Media, People, Support

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• Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.

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  Media, Community, Way

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• We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.

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  Issues, Working Together, Environmental

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• What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

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  Children, Technological Change, Fountain

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• With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.

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  Technology, Media, Play

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• Without question, CEOs, executives and employees in companies in the United States and around the world have rallied to face the challenge of a social media marketplace.

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  Media, Challenges, World

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• The future of profit is purpose.

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  Purpose, Social Media, Profit

  Twitter post from Nov 30, 2015

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• Social media is not an end in itself. It's just another tool to reach people.

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  Media, People, Tools

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• How well you tell your story determines how well your customers tell your story.

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  Stories, Social Media, Wells

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• Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.

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  Thinking, Needs, Excuse

  "Blake Mycoskie On TOMS New One For One Eyewear". Interview with Blake Mycoskie, www.fastcompany.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

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  Eye, America, Life Is

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• When something works for you or another brand, ask yourself, 'Why?' Then don't copy it but think about what you can do that's unique to you and better.

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  Unique, Thinking, Copies

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